Erin Lake Receives Dean’s Fund for Scientific Advancement

Congratulations to Instructor and SM BIO programs Co-Director Erin Lake, who was recently named a recipient of the Dean’s Fund for Scientific Advancement!  Dr. Lake (also ’02 doctoral alumna) received the Public Health … Continue reading “Erin Lake Receives Dean’s Fund for Scientific Advancement”

Bethany Hedt-Gauthier & Team Win Top Prize in NIH Technology Accelerator Challenge (NTAC) for Maternal Health

Congratulations to alumna Bethany Hedt-Gauthier, PhD ’08, and her team who won the first place $500,000 prize in the NIH Technology Accelerator Challenge (NTAC) for Maternal Health!The competition is based on the … Continue reading “Bethany Hedt-Gauthier & Team Win Top Prize in NIH Technology Accelerator Challenge (NTAC) for Maternal Health”

Bethany Hedt-Gauthier and Isabel Fulcher receive SPAIG Award!

Congratulations to Biostats alums Bethany Hedt-Gauthier, Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine and Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Isabel Fulcher, Data Fellow at the Harvard Data Science Initiative who recently … Continue reading “Bethany Hedt-Gauthier and Isabel Fulcher receive SPAIG Award!”

Intekhab Hossain Receives ITCR Travel Fellowship

Congratulations to Biostats PhD candidate Intekhab (Inté) Hossain who received a prestigious travel fellowship to attend the Informatics Technology for Cancer Research (ITCR) meeting in St. Louis this September.  Inté will be presenting his … Continue reading “Intekhab Hossain Receives ITCR Travel Fellowship”

Myrto Distinguished Lectureship & Lagakos Alumni Award NOMINATIONS DUE FRIDAY

  Each year the lectureship is awarded to a promising statistician who has made contributions to either collaborative or methodologic research in the applications of statistical methods to biology or … Continue reading “Myrto Distinguished Lectureship & Lagakos Alumni Award NOMINATIONS DUE FRIDAY”

Biostats Faculty Receive Prestigious Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics

Congratulations to Drs. James Robins, Miguel Hernán, Andrea Rotnitzky, Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen, PhD ’06, and University of Washington Professor Thomas Richardson who have been awarded the 2022 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics for their pioneering work … Continue reading “Biostats Faculty Receive Prestigious Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics”

StatStart Receives CLIF Funding!

Congratulations to the StatStart team who was recently selected as a 2022-23 grant recipient of the Harvard Culture Lab Innovation Fund (CLIF)! The team will receive generous funding for their upcoming summer program after … Continue reading “StatStart Receives CLIF Funding!”

Yi-Ting Tsai Named HDSI Public Service Data Science Graduate Fellow

Health Data Science master’s student Yi-Ting Tsai was named one of the Summer 2022 Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI) Public Service Data Science Graduate Fellows! During this internship, Tsai will gain experience … Continue reading “Yi-Ting Tsai Named HDSI Public Service Data Science Graduate Fellow”

Jenny Lee & Falco J. Bargagli-Stoffi Poster Awards

  Doctoral student Jenny Lee received a student poster award at the New England Statistics Symposium 2022! She received the award for her work on “Causal exposure-response curve estimation using generalized propensity score matching … Continue reading “Jenny Lee & Falco J. Bargagli-Stoffi Poster Awards”

Postdoc Tian Gu Receives HDSI Funding

Congratulations to postdoc Tian Gu, who recently awarded the  2022 Postdoctoral Fellow Research Fund from the Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI). The fund  incentivizes and supports cross-disciplinary collaboration between data scientists at the postdoctoral … Continue reading “Postdoc Tian Gu Receives HDSI Funding”